Ancient Lanka - Tree and Svastika
12 Comp. - 7 Branch Plain - Anticlockwise

A oblong lead coin with a tree with Seven plain branches within enclosure of twelve compartments on obverse and a railed svastika revolving to left (anticlockwise) on the reverse.

SPECIFICATIONS
AlloyPb?
TypeCast
Diameter14.4 mm
Thickness1.6 mm
Weight1.11 gms
ShapeOblong0.85
DieAxis-30°
 tree12c7bp_lsvastika_obverse tree12c7bp_lsvastika_reverse
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Obverse : A tree with Seven plain branches within enclosure of twelve compartments in three rows of four each. Symbols if any on eitherside indistinct.
Reverse : A Railed svastika revolving to left (anti-clockwise). Symbols if any on eitherside indistinct.

This is one variety of many coins of this type. The ends of branches which is visible do not split into three, and there no unidentified symbols to left and right if the railed svastika like in the larger 12-compartment coin.

Text edited from
* Ceylon Coins and Currency By H. W. Codrington. Colombo 1924
  Page 22 Chapter III - Tree and Svastika - Pl 12 to Pl 15.
* Ruhuna. An Ancient Civilisation Re-visited by Bopearachchi and Wickramasinhe. 1999
  Page 27 Local coins - Tree and Svastika - Pl H.9 to H.17.

The coin was scanned at 600 dpi and displayed at 400 dpi. It was obtained in 2001 December from Mr A. Ratnayaka a Dealer in Katharagama, Lanka.